Montag, 9. März 2009

gPodder 0.15.0 now in Maemo Extras

The latest release of gPodder, a podcast downloader for Maemo has been released today, and packages for it are already available in Maemo Extras for Chinook, Diablo and Fremantle Alpha (..but there is no Extras-Promoter for Fremantle yet?).

Highlights of this release:

Download resuming between sessions

Finger-friendly lists using libmokoui2

Friendly folder and file names for downloaded files

Finger gestures for the episode list

The finger gestures are very nice and can be used to show episode details or play back episodes. Enable the configuration option maemo_enable_gestures and then swipe left to display shownotes or swipe right over an episode to listen to it.

I installed 0.15.0-2 successfully . only thing is package is lack of python-mokoui , which I installed it with apt-get . The finger gestures is really nice . The scrolling is much improved and responsive . One tiny thing is the podcast name original is " CBS ...." , now it is " youtube : CBS " after updated . I have edit it by myself to the original one .

Quim: Just discussed this a bit more with X-Fade on IRC. The problem lies with the autobuilder moving packages to extras-devel that build correctly, but do not have all their runtime dependencies available. According to him, this will be fixed by some kind of holddown/quarantine for such packages, so they wait for all runtime dependencies to become available.